Improvement in cheese-mills



UNITED STATES PATENT GEEroE.

JACOB F. LANDIS, OF HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

`uwPRovEwnENT IN CHEESE-MILLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 159,189, dated JanuaryQ6, 1875; application filed December 19, 1874.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JAooB F. LANDIS, ofHarrisburg, Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, have invented an Improvementin Cheese- Mills; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full andcorrect description of the same, reference `bein g had to theaccompanying drawings, in which the figure is a perspective view.

My invention relates to machines for granulatin g substances by forcingthem through perforated metal or sieves, and is especially adapted topulverizing and granulating cheese. My invention consists inconstructing the perforated reservoir for the cheese in a conical formand introducing therein a removable revolvin g agitator or grinder, bywhich the cheese or other material is forced through the aper- Vture inthe sheet metal; and it also consists in graduating the sides of thereservoir, so that it will indicate the quantity of material containedtherein.

In the drawing, A represents a rim, to the lower edge of which issecured an inverted perforated cone,'B. Within this inverted cone is theagitator C, which is revolved by means of the shaft D and crank I. Theagitator is made to t the inside of the cone B, resting upon the sidesand centering in the apex. The shaft D is secured to the agitator C byinserting its square lower end into a socket in the top of the agitator,by which means the shaft is easily removed from the socket and theagitator removed from the cone and cleaned. Upon either side of the rimAare lugs L, by which the apparatus may be suspended in the neck of avessel when in operation, and the material, as it falls from thepertbrations, collected. A handle, H, upon one side of the rim Acompletes the construction of my device, except the graduatngmarks uponthe cone, marked and 1, which indicate the amount of contents containedin the reservoir, and by which the amount of material to be granulatedmay be regulated.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a cheese-mill, a conical perforated reservoir containing a rotaryremovable agitator or grinder, substantially as described.

2. A cheesemill consisting of a conical perforated reservoir, removableagitator, lugs L, and handle H, substantially as described.

3. A perforated conical cheese-mill, provided with a graduated scale toindicate the amount of material granulated, substantially as described.

The above specification of my said invention signed and witnessed, atWashington, thisV 16th day of December, A. D. 1874.

JACOB F. LANDIS. Witnesses:

W. l?. BELL, C. M. PARKS.

